| West African pied hornbill | |
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| Male L. semifasciatus, Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Bucerotiformes |
| Family: | Bucerotidae |
| Genus: | Lophoceros |
| Species: | L. semifasciatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophoceros semifasciatus (Hartlaub, 1855) | |
The West African pied hornbill (Lophoceros semifasciatus) is a bird of the hornbill family, a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World. [2]
The West African pied hornbill is found in West Africa, from south Nigeria to Senegal and Gambia—primarily in secondary forest areas of the Guinean-Congolese forest,[ citation needed ] and is threatened by forest fragmentation. [3] It was previously considered conspecific with the Congo pied hornbill, and was split in IOC 13.2. [2]
It is a frugivore. [4]
